At the 2026 PCA Convention & Trade Show in April, Sans Pareil showed off new boxes for the lines in its portfolio, no change more dramatic than the updated Gold Line boxes. This week, the new packaging has begun shipping to stores. While the cigars themselves—both the blend and vitolas—are the same as before, the boxes have been updated, going from a matte look to a glossy piano finish. The
On Tuesday, June 16, two new cigars from the partnership between Espinosa Premium Cigars and Guy Fieri, the celebrity chef, began shipping to stores. The Knuckle Sandwich Avant-Garde is a new cigar that the brand hopes will be approachable for a wider consumer base, presumably milder than many of the existing Knuckle Sandwich releases. Avant-Garde is debuting in a 6 x 54 toro extra vitola that uses an Ecuadorian habano
Camacho’s famed Liberty Series is once again back at stores, though in a very different way than before. From 2002 through 2021, nearly every summer brought a limited edition Camacho Liberty Series cigar to stores. For most of its life, the Liberty Series was known for coming in a unique 11/18 perfecto shape, packaged in coffins, and serving as the flagship of the Camacho portfolio. In 2021, Davidoff, which purchased
A new cigar that would seem like it should be arriving in three months is just a week or two away from showing up at stores. Update (June 19, 2026) — Creature from Tatuaje has begun shipping to stores. Creature from Tatuaje, a cigar that is part of the larger Monster Series family, though it is not officially one of the 13 main Monster Series releases, is set to arrive
When your cigar company is named after the Cayman Islands, it only makes sense to name a cigar after one of the islands’ most famous residents: the tortuga. Tortuga is the Spanish word for turtle or tortoise, so it’s a generic term for the roughly five species of turtles who make the Cayman Islands their home. The animals are so plentiful that Christopher Columbus originally dubbed the Cayman Islands as
Around Thanksgiving, RoMa Craft Tobac will release a new sampler full of toros, two of which will be new. The El Catador de los Gran Toros follows in a long line of El Catador samplers for RoMa Craft. As it has done in the past, these samplers will contain each of the company’s blends in a single vitola. This time it’s the 6 x 54 toro extra vitola. Last year, RoMa
The two newest cigars from Liga Tridente, the brand started by entertainer Marlon Wayans, have begun arriving at retailers across the country. The first new release is the Liga Tridente Rosado Churchill, a 7 x 46 vitola which uses a rosado oscuro wrapper, a criollo 98 binder, and fillers from Colombia alongside a habano-seed varietal. Other than disclosing the Colombian tobacco in the filler, the origins of the other tobacco
The Matilde Serena line has a new vitola, the blend’s smallest size to date. It’s the Matilde Serena Perla, a 4 x 40 petit corona. The Serena is a regular production line that debuted a decade ago. It uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper over a Dominican binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. The cigars are rolled at Tabacalera Palma in the Dominican Republic. While the Perla will
Yesterday, Gov. JB Pritzker passed a $56 billion budget deal, which included it in are multiple changes to how cigars are taxed in the state. The good news is that beginning Jan. 1, 2027, there will be a 75-cent cap on the excise taxes for cigars, excluding little cigars. This will mean lower prices for virtually every handmade cigar sold in the state. The state has a tax rate of
Fans of the Wolverines, there’s a cigar for you. Bocock Brothers, a Houston-based company that has largely pivoted to making officially-licencesed collegiate cigars, has started shipping its latest release, made in honor of the University of Michigan’s 2026 NCAA men’s basketball championship. The Bocock Brothers Michigan 2026 National Championship is a 6 x 52 toro that uses a Honduran maduro wrapper over a Honduran binder and fillers from Honduras, Nicaragua